Colorful FX | Post-Processing Effects and Photoshop-like Color Correction Tools

Sorry for the late answer, I'm glad it fit your needs !
You're not the first person to ask for a demo so I'll try to make one

 

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Hi !

Thanks ! This is because you have more than one item selected in your project hierarchy. Make sure the camera is the only one selected.

Yes, the only way to have image effects not affecting NGUI (Colorful of others) is to setup a second camera (using Depth,Clear Flags and Culling Mask). One for the scene where you put your image effects, one for the UI. If you've never done such a setup before, I know there are a few topics discussing the subject on this forum and NGUI's and you'll find some on Youtube as well.

Cheers !

Edit: here's a quick tutorial on Youtube. It's for a FPS weapon system, but the idea is the same.

 

Thanks, I'm glad you like it !

Including / Excluding a NGUI camera from image effects is easy, but applying image effects ONLY to a NGUI camera... Not so much, from what I know. Due to the way the camera "depth" works in Unity, image effects rendered at the highest depth are rendered over the full camera buffer. So unless I missed a new Unity feature or something, it can't be done without hardcoding some custom render to texture calls in a custom script with the shaders you want to apply...

You could try asking on the NGUI forum, maybe someone there has a better solution (I don't own NGUI, but maybe there's some tool or script included that would help in this case).

 

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A quick update is available.

Changelog (1.4.1) :

• Fixed a weird bug with RGB Split only working in Directx 11 mode in some setups.

 

Hi,

Sorry for the delay, once again the forum failed at sending me a notification...

You can easily tween the amount value (and any value you want actually) programmatically using iTween or GoKit for example. Or you can also use the Animation tool built in Unity

 

Version 1.5 is available and comes with a documentation and examples !

Changelog (1.5) :

• New effect, Gradient Ramp.
• New effect, Lookup Filter (advanced color grading).
• New effect, Negative (with proper transition).
• New effect, Wiggle (underwater distortion).
• Full documentation.
• Unity 4.3 compatibility fix.
• General code cleaning, a few minor fixes and various optimizations.

 

Hello,

As I don't work with mobile, I can't say for sure which effect works best on mobile and which does not. But according to the feedback I got from some users, they work fine on recent and semi-recent mobiles (iPhone 4S+). Some effects are more demanding, like Analog TV, HSV and Radial Blur but the rest of them should be fairly cheap.

I'd love to be able to answer you in a more precise way, unfortunately I don't have access to the needed mobile hardware to test it by myself. That said, if you ever get this asset please share your findings so I can work on making it better !

 

Version 1.6 is in the store !

Changelog (1.6) :

• New effect, Convolution Matrix 3x3.
• New effect, Blend, featuring 21 blending modes (with support for MovieTexture, see the doc).
• New option to desaturate the Fast Vignette.
• Refactoring, improvements and optimizations of the following effects :
  • Analog TV
  • Fast Vignette
  • Frost
  • Grayscale
  • Radial Blur

 

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I almost started to make one a few months ago, but then I thought it wouldn't have any use in game... Apparently I was wrong
I'll add it to the todo list and see what I can do.

 

Hello,

Unfortunately no, Colorful doesn't come with a thermal camera effect at the moment.

Edit: it can be faked though, using the GradientRamp effect. See the example in the doc !

 

You can do curve adjustments with the lookup effect (and much more actually, see the documentation about that). If you meant a proper curve effect inside the Unity editor, then I didn't feel the need to make one as Unity Pro already comes with one (named Color Correction Curves). Unless it's missing something obvious I can't see ?

 

Version 1.6.1 is available !
It brings small fixes and user requested features.

Changelog (1.6.1) :

• Added an optional pixel perfect mode to the Pixelate and LED effects.
• Added a ratio settings (can be set to automatic) to the Pixelate and LED effects to change the cell shape.
• Added an optional noise pass on the Threshold effect.
• Added HeatRamp.png in the resources folder (can be used to emulate a thermal vision with the Gradient Ramp effect).
• Documentation fixes.

 

Hello,

The effect should be visible in the Game view in realtime (play with the sliders), no need to hit play.

I got your email about the error message :

You said you use Unity Pro so I don't really know what's happening in this case, unless you're running Unity on a really (and I mean really) old or low-end computer, which seems unlikely.

Could you post some of your specs (GPU and Unity version) please ?

Do other image effects work correctly with the same setup ? Could you import the built-in image effects in your project (Assets -> Import Package -> Image Effects (Pro Only)) and try a few, see if you get the same error ?

 

Sounds good.

Not even the Unity ones (Blur, Tone Mapping etc) ?

Yes, they definitely should...

 

Version 1.7 is available.

Changelog (1.7) :

• New effect, Halftone (CMYK and Black White).
• New effect, Cross Stitch.
• Fixed a serialization bug affecting all effects' custom inspectors.

Enjoy !

 

I'm pleased to announce that Colorful works great with Amplify Color ! Check out this demo video :

Jump to 3:27 and onward to see how Colorful integrates with Amplify Color's volume blending feature !

 

Yes it does !

 

Hello,

You're not doing anything wrong, you've just found a weird bug... Actually the same thing happens when trying to add a standard image effect (from the Image Effect (Pro Only) package bundled with Unity) to a camera : the reference to the shader is lost, so the component is disabled automatically. This shouldn't happen, I'll look into it asap !

(Capn_Andy from Radial Games ?)

 

Hmm so here's what's happening : the shader for each image effect is set as a default reference in the editor, but when you call AddComponent, this reference isn't set because it's editor-only. Same problem with default image effects. So to add an image effect from script, you'd have to set the shader reference, like this :

Code (csharp):

1. var comp = gameObject.AddComponent<CC_AnalogTV>();
2. comp.shader = Shader.Find("Hidden/CC_AnalogTV");
3. comp.enabled = true;

This will work in the editor, but not in a final build because Unity strips unused assets from the build... The CC_AnalogTV shader won't be included since Unity doesn't know it's being referenced because it's called from a string.

So you have to force Unity to add the shader to the build. The easiest and cleanest way to do it is to simply move all shader files from /Colorful/Shaders into the /Colorful/Resources folder (files in */Resources are always included in the build phase even if they're not used in the game). And the above code will work.

Should I move all shaders into the Resources folder in the next update ?

It would work better in cases like yours but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with forcing all shaders into the build even if they're not used. Shader files are very tiny, but still... Or maybe I'll add a note in the Readme and in the HTML doc. I'm open to suggestions !

 

I'm using some of these in a project of mine (linear + hdr) and haven't noticed anything wrong so far. These effects aren't doing any gamma transformation whatsoever, they treat the pixels as is and send raw results back so it should be fine.

 

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Version 1.7.1 is available.

Changelog (1.7.1) :

• Added Auto Timer & Auto Phase options to Wiggle and Analog TV.
• Added icons to the components to make them easier to spot.
• A few documentation fixes & additions.
• The LUT texture used with Lookup Filter now bypasses sRGB sampling so it works correctly with the Linear color space.

Enjoy !

 

Colorful is now available on Itch.io as well ! Same price, same version, just another convenient way to buy it if for some reason the Asset Store doesn't work for you.